Betting Odds – 2025 Final Four Edition!

After a few weeks of some of the most surprising and intense March Madness’s EVER, the NCAA Men’s tournament is now rolling into April – and this time the field has shrunk from 68 teams – to you guessed it, the FINAL FOUR.

There are familiar faces with Kentucky and Connecticut once again punching their Final 4 tickets, but relative show-stealers Virginia Commonwealth and Butler have also ridden their Cinderella status all the way through to earn the rights of the last ones standing thus far in the NCAA tourney.

VCU has stunned the critics and has been backed up by a talented squad of 3-point demons throughout the tournament this year, absolutely crushing their opponents at will and dismantling #1 ranked Kansas in the Elite 8 earlier last week.  Their #11 seeding has not stopped nor intimidated this group and they look to get to their first national championship game ever when they face off against Butler this Saturday.

As fate would have it – and some say VCU wants it that way – the tiny team from Virginia Commonwealth will be 2.5 point underdogs when they play the Bulldogs of Butler. Betting odds also have Butler’s moneyline at -145, with many analysts looking at Butler’s very deep team and their stingy defense against the 3-pointer.

On the other token, the battle of the “real” titans pits two very veteran teams in UConn and Kentucky, both of which have been to the Final 4 eighteen times between them!  As Jim Calhoun prepares his Huskies for battle against John Calipari of the Wildcats, it’s no secret that the keys to winning this game lie within the head coaches, and not just the kids running their plays.

UConn and Kentucky have played some close and very gritty games, and both teams are led by young points guards in Kemba Walker for Uconn and Brandon Jackson for Kentucky.  Both teams match up near even, with Kentucky getting a slight edge in the big man department, making the game that much more intriguing.

The sportsbooks have this one just as tight as the Butler-VCU game that was aforementioned above, with Kentucky being placed as a 2.5 point favorite over the Big East champion UConn.

Stay tuned to cbs for live coverage of the games, which take place this Saturday afternoon, April 2nd, 2025.